Organizational Unit

Baltic Film, Media and Arts School

Baltic Film, Media and Arts School of Tallinn University (BFM) is a competence centre for communication and audio visual knowledge and expertise. At our School you can study at the Bachelor's, Master's and PhD level, in Estonian and English.

At BFM you can obtain a wide-based education in an international environment. Our study programmes offer tools and skills for working on various positions in film production, TV, new media, communication, choreography, art and music. Knowledge gathered at the Bachelor's level can be refined with our Master's programmes.

About 830 students study at BFM each semester at the BA, MA and PhD level. Around 20% of our students are from 40 different countries worldwide. BFM has over 70 partner universities in Europe and Asia. We have 3 joint curriculum, one of them in English. We offer a truly exciting mix of cultures that creates an invaluable professional network for your later career.

At BFM we believe in learning by doing. Our focus is on professional hands-on training designed for international careers in the world’s rapidly growing audiovisual and media industry.

We await all active and creative students, who wish to apply themselves in the exiting world of audio visual arts, communication and media. Our study programmes have been compiled in a way that in a few years, you will obtain both the theoretical basic knowledge as well as varied practical skills. All study programmes value internships and collaborative projects, which will give you an insight to the industry and the possibility to gather social capital both in Estonia and abroad, while still at the university.

BFM is equipped with modern video and sound equipment, we have our own TV studio, sound studios, an editing centre and a film studio. We provide students with free shooting and post-production equipment, studio space and production support for their creative works, supervised by established professionals from the audiovisual industry. BFM building houses Estonia’s first 4K cinema hall.

BFM is a proud member of a European University FilmEU, a transnational alliances of eight higher film education institutions, paving the way towards the universities of the future: https://education.ec.europa.eu/education-levels/higher-education/european-universities-initiative.

FilmEU significantly enhances the learning, mobility, research and entrepreneurship options of the partner universities, therefore greatly enriching the student, researcher and staff experience. This initiative will also influence societal discourse on sustainability, inclusion, climate, research, mobility, innovation, and digital transformation, extending its impact far beyond the partner institutions.

The university alliance is led by Lusófona University of Portugal, and the FilmEU includes original members Luca School of Arts in Belgium, IADT in Ireland, and TLU BFM in Estonia, and welcomes in 2024 VŠMU (Slovakia), LMTA (Lithuania), VIA University College (Denmark), and NATFA (Bulgaria).